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Tag: Spring Training

Ranking The Top 10 Spring Training Storylines

February 16, 2021 Ben Carter Baseball

This week, pitchers and catchers flock to Arizona and Florida as baseball once again awakens from its deep, long slumber over winter. Nothing beats those sounds of pitches smacking gloves and sights of pristinely kept fields baking in the early-year

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Mets Lose Noah Syndergaard to Tommy John Surgery

March 26, 2020 Alex Worth Baseball, Team Contributors

Well, if you didnt think the situation regarding baseball could get a whole lot worse, it just did. It was announced on Tuesday evening that Mets starter Noah Syndergaard has torn his ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm and

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LA Dodgers Spring Training: Early Impressions

March 4, 2020 Peter Souter Baseball, Team Contributors

Ah… spring training. A chance to get a taste of the new season! Teams are testing out their lineups, pitchers are tinkering with new pitches, and it’s a chance to see some new faces from the minor leagues, fighting for

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Top performers from St. Louis Cardinals first spring training game

February 25, 2020 Matt Benson Baseball, Team Contributors

After a quiet offseason in St. Louis, there has been a lot of anticipation to see how this current roster does in the grapefruit league in 2020.  But the top performers from the first spring training game are a mixture

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What I love about baseball

February 23, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Guest writer

Spring is a wonderful time. It melts away the icy snows of winter and replaces it with green grass, the enveloping warmth of the sun and its fresh morning air. For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, spring

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Best Of British – Spring has sprung!

March 26, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Steve Klein set up a blog called Bush League Ramble a couple of years ago and has been writing sporadically about baseball on there (and for a few other sites) ever since. His latest undertaking is Reading The Game, a

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“Don’t panic Mr Mainwaring!” – A Spring Training Guide

February 17, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

Spring Training has technically begun, you may have been seeing the phrase “Pitchers and Catchers” being floated around. This is when (wait for it) the pitchers and catchers report and begin their throwing and catching programs. They generally take a

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Andy Green and Fernando Tatis Jr. Meet Tom Pringle

February 15, 2019 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Pinch Hitting

I like to think I’m pretty level headed and don’t get star struck. Well, I suppose there was that one time I asked the Commissioner of Major League Baseball — Rob Manfred — a question and then proceeded to black

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Bat Flips and Nerds Does Pitchers and Catchers

February 15, 2019 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Pinch Hitting

My day job has many variables that can destroy plans in an instant, so forgive me if I milk this one a little bit but it’s rare the stars align and allow such a day to happen. I will finally

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